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Welcome to UC San Diego's Internal Medicine Residency Program

The mission of the UC San Diego Internal Medicine Residency Program is to provide a superior academic environment with diverse clinical and research opportunities so that each resident receives the training necessary to achieve his or her career aspirations.

Our training environment provides a wide range of clinical and academic experiences designed to prepare you for a multitude of different career opportunities in internal medicine. Experience is available in clinical settings ranging from community outreach clinics to academic tertiary/quaternary referral centers. The large and diverse San Diego community, the proximity to the international border and the presence of a world-class tertiary referral center provides a fascinating and diverse patient population.

Our faculty includes world leaders in both clinical medicine and basic research. Under their guidance and supervision, our residents are encouraged to assume primary responsibility for patient care and to perform research.

Many of the recent innovations in the residency program have been crafted by the residents in cooperation with faculty and program leadership.

Our program supports a diverse group of nearly 100 residents. The camaraderie and high quality of our residents are the hallmarks of our residency program. Residents work closely with each other and our faculty, creating a thriving learning environment.

Graduates of our program regularly go on to accept highly competitive opportunities in clinical practice as well as in the most selective fellowship programs in the nation.

Dr. Rebecca Sell Receives
ATS Young Investigator Award

Associate program director Rebecca Sell, MD, won an ATS 2014 Young Investigator Award for her presentation at the annual meeting of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR) in Bali, Indonesia, November 13-16.

Her presentation was titled, "Difference in Outcomes between Senior Physician and Medicine Resident-led Code Blues."

On the APSR 2014 program faculty was Atul Malhotra, MD, Kenneth M. Moser Professor of Medicine, director of sleep medicine and chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Malhotra, who received an ATS Young Investigator award in 2005, is now president-elect of the ATS.

Dr. Charlie Goldberg Joins
Program Faculty

Dr. Charlie Goldberg is the new Associate Program Director for the UC San Diego Internal Medicine Residency Program, based at the VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS). Dr. Goldberg is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and staff physician at the VASDHS. He has played an active role in resident and student education at UC San Diego since joining the institution in 1998 and has served as a core faculty member for the residency program since 2006.

Dr. Goldberg is an accomplished and beloved teacher, winning numerous national and local teaching awards from residents and students. He has been selected for the prestigious Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching from the UC San Diego medical students seven times. In his role as co-director of the Clinical Foundations thread at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, he was instrumental in designing a new curriculum for the first two years of medical school.

He is also the leader of the one of the six academic communities at the School of Medicine. He has an interest in innovative curricular design and has created several educational websites and applications. The San Diego County Medical Society has recognized him as one of San Diego’s Top Doctors in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

Our Residents Excel at Recent Scientific Meetings

At the American College of Physicians Regional Meeting October 18, R1 Jisha Joshua took first place with her research poster, "Soluble Guanylate Cyclase as a Novel Treatment Target for Osteoporosis."

A warm congratulations also to Ian Neel (left), who received third place for his clinical vignette poster at the California Geriatrics Society-sponsored UC San Diego Clinical Geriatrics Interprofessional Symposium October 4-5.

Support Our Program

The Internal Medicine Residency Program trains world-class physicians who excel in patient care, research and service. Your donation to support the program will be used for educational tools, conference fees, food and other morale-boosting items. We appreciate your support!

Kevin Shah Named House Officer of the Year

Senior resident Kevin Shah, MD, has been chosen 2014-2015 House Officer of the Year in UC San Diego Health System's annual program honoring the top house staff and attending physicians.

After graduation, Kevin will move on to fellowship training in cardiology at UCLA. He received his MD from UC Irvine.

Announcing Our Incoming Interns for 2015-2016

UC San Diego Internal Medicine Program In Nation's Top Ten in the West in Doximity Rankings

In Doximity rankings released January 13, UC San Diego is in the top ten in the West in internal medicine training and in combined or subspecialty residency training in anesthesiology, dermatology and pediatrics. Details

Save the Date: 1st Annual Resident Research Symposium Is Set for May 7

The 1st Annual UC San Diego Internal Medicine Resident Research Symposium will take place on Thursday, May 7, 2015, 6 - 9 p.m.

All residents who have participated in a research block either this academic year or last will present their work. We hope this will serve to inspire future projects and create more mentorship opportunities.

Four Poster Presentations, Two Clinical Vignette Finalists at Regional Society of General Internal Medicine Meeting

Arthi Balu (left) and Steven Lin.

Two UC San Diego internal medicine residents were clinical vignette finalists and a total of four presented posters at the California-Hawaii Regional Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine in Los Angeles on January 10.